BBSTORED-CERTS

NAME

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

creates and signs certificates for use in Box Backup. It allows the user to create and sign the server keys, as well as signing client keys.

All commands must be followed by the
certs-dir, which is the directory in which the certificates are stored.

Commands

There are 3 commands:

init

Create the
certs-dir, and generate the server keys for bbstored.
certs-dir
cannot exist before running the command.

sign-serverservercsrfile

Sign the server certificate. The
servercsrfile
is the file generated by the
init
command.

signclientcsrfile

Sign a client certificate. The
clientcsrfile
is generated during client setup. See
bbackupd-config(8). Send the signed certificate back to the client, and install according to the instructions given by
bbackupd-config.